The Creation Lab is a format for extraordinary solutions and ideas that has matured over 15 years of experience. It offers a new approach to knowledge and enables the creative potential of all participants to be brought together - something like ‘deep learning’ of the neural networks of all team members.
This is what makes the Creation Lab unique, taking your team's creativity to the next level.
Prominent reference
Albert Einstein used this access to expanded knowledge throughout his life, for example in the development of the theory of relativity. In the Creation Lab, his access to deep imagination can be systematically utilised.
Efficient
The Creation Lab enables openness and a deep space of trust.
Potentiated
The creative potential of all participants synchronises and multiplies the output of ideas and solutions.
Lasting
The extended access to knowledge and the imaginative lab are retained for everyone after the first session.
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Creation Lab in brief
In every industry and every organisation where extraordinary solutions and ideas are sought:
- for technical, organisational, social and strategic ideas/solutions
- e.g. finding the disruptive game changer in R&D
- or developing a business model for a regenerative company working with NFT's, blockchain technology and revolutionising energy efficiency - at any stage for any challenge in projects and all business areas
- in existing teams or newly formed groups of three or more participants
From the first time they take part, everyone can draw on this new internal resource again and again. Would you like a permanent solution incubator or solution tank that works for your organisation? I will train your employees to become Creation Lab leaders in order to permanently increase your innovative strength in the long term. Framework conditionsGroup size: from three participants - who do not need to know each other beforehand.
Preparation: depending on the topic and participants, there is appropriate preparation, e.g. in the form of individual coaching sessions to familiarise participants with the core method of deep imagination Presence/online: purely online-based implementation is possible - including preparation (individual coaching sessions) - and even has advantages.
My mission
I want to give organisations new access to ground-breaking solutions for a sustainable world.
With the Creation Lab, I take teams to a new level of co-creation that permanently increases the output of innovations.
At the same time, the connections with each other deepen, even if the Creation Lab takes place online.
Basically, the Creation Lab can be used in two stages:
1. one-time - for the solution of a question/challenge
2. permanent - in the development of your own Creation Lab as an integral part of your innovation culture
The successive phases of the Creation Lab:
1. preparation: selection of suitable participants and the appropriate lab location - familiarisation with deep imagination
2. creation lab I
- Intro, setting up the imaginative lab environment
- Open, invite, create
3. creation lab II - the airlock
- initial exploration, further development
4. creation lab III
- Concretise, organise the next implementation steps
In the phases...
1. preparation:
Selecting harmonious participants according to the value worlds of Spiral Dynamics
Trust-building understanding using E.M. and NVC
Expanding thinking, feeling and willing through Theory U
2. creation lab I:
First familiarisation with deep imagination 1:1
Expanded access to the knowledge channel of creative intelligence
Creation Lab II:
initial exploration using suitable CPS tools - Creative Problem Solving
in the ‘airlock’, continuing to incorporate the atmosphere of the lab environment
Creation Lab III:
Concretise the usable solutions using further CPS tools
Ensure implementation through project management steps (responsibilities, scheduling, ... )
Creating an atmosphere of openness is not difficult. But breaking away from the usual habits of thought is!
The Creation Lab creates this special free space - one of the most important prerequisites for coming up with extraordinary ideas and solutions!
The second speciality is access to knowledge via spontaneously occurring inner images. It sounds simple, but the results are like the difference between a drop and the ocean.
Access to expanded knowledge
In dreams, images help us to rebalance our psyche. Here we can already recognise a deeper intelligence within us that reduces stress for us. Most of the time we remain mere spectators. But in deep imagination, we learn to establish active contact with these inner images, even to speak to them. And they have a lot to tell us. They seem to have an expanded knowledge about us and the secrets of life. They helped August Kekulé discover the benzene ring in the form of a snake, and Albert Einstein discovered important aspects of the theory of relativity through them.
Landing pad for genius
- Experience unprecedented freedom
- Freedom of thought
- Not easy, but simple
- Get out of the routine
- It's not enough to take off your shoes to knock your socks off
- Into the land of ignorance
- Because the pressure to leave everything as it is is greater than the fear of the unknown new
![[Translate to English:] Produktentwicklung](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/7/csm_creation_lab_produktentwicklung_ee90d9809e.jpg)
Product development
Goal:
Finding an unknown component to complete a magnetic current motor (physics, research into innovative energy generation)
Setting:
Three physicists familiar with the project, two ‘rethinkers’ at the project site where research and experimentation is taking place.
Time:
4 hours
Preparation:
Getting in the mood for the goal - creating a climate of trust - activating individual creative potential.
Afterwards, deep imagination is used to open up access to finding the component being sought.
Result:
One of the physicists identifies an emergent imagination of the rethinkers as an electro-chemical active principle that has not yet been used.
Implementation:
It is decided to use this principle in the construction.
![[Translate to English:] Teamentwicklung](/fileadmin/_processed_/4/2/csm_creation_lab_teamentwicklung_a24d43af32.jpg)
Team development
Goal:
Team development based on an authentic inventory of a project team
Setting:
Twelve team members in a seminar room with full glazing and a view over a wide landscape. Time: 1 hour at the end of a 6-hour meeting (various topics)
Preparation:
Specification of a ‘basic picture’ - mountain ecosystem. Guiding the group into medium-deep relaxation and to access the source of knowledge of deep imagination. Accompaniment to invite spontaneously occurring images, as what, how and where everyone sees themselves there.
Result:
Imaginations e.g. in the form of animals, natural and landscape elements, people or even vehicles on and above the mountain. Strengthening of individuals through the imaginary images, realisation of previously unknown needs and roles in the subsequent reflection.
Implementation:
Invitation to supportive and further offers (dialogue, mediation, coaching)
![[Translate to English:] Strategiefindung](/fileadmin/_processed_/4/5/csm_creation_lab_strategiefindung_7e10cdf1bd.jpg)
Strategy development
Challenge:
Two managing directors cannot agree on a common strategic direction for weeks.
Goal:
To re-establish unity while preserving the underlying reasons for the differing attitudes.
Setting:
The two managing directors are accompanied by me in a think tank room in their own company.
Time: 3 hours
Procedure:
Both are accompanied to a (spontaneously occurring) inner image in ‘their’ landscape. There they encounter the deeper motivations behind their position. From there, they are invited to meet at a suitable common location to find a solution.
Result:
Agreement is reached in a surprisingly simple way in the shared image after the deeper motivations have been exchanged.
Implementation:
Both are still very satisfied with the solution 4 weeks after the meeting. The unity that has finally been achieved has a clear climate-improving effect on the company.
‘It's not enough to take off your shoes to knock your socks off’
- Making room for something new
- Out of the routine
- Into the land of not-knowing
- Uncertainty as a gateway to the new
- Openness and trust are the basis, curiosity, playfulness and enthusiasm are the engines
- Guiding thinking, letting thinking (be)
- Helping thoughts to take off: multidimensional/musical/visual thinking
- Body & mind
- Being present & relaxed at the same time
- Being focussed and at the same time having a broad awareness
You imagine your favourite environment that inspires you and where the best ideas come to you.
A shared space is created in which all participants are also in their favourite places at the same time.
For a first impression, I invite you to take a trip to your favourite place of inspiration using the button on the right.
You can also get to know the imaginative lab environment there.
Images in dreams help us to balance our psyche. However, we usually remain mere spectators. In deep imagination, you learn the language to communicate directly with your inner images. Images become counsellors and companions. You experience amazing things that you would never have thought of in a dream. Permanently. This access remains from the first contact. It can be called up again independently.
Eight experts familiar with the topic, plus two particularly talented out-of-the-box thinkers, meet for creation labs in various inspiring places such as in the mountains and on the sea, in laboratories and on innovation journeys or optionally online in VR environments. Four days every two weeks for 4-6 months.
- Preparations: Clarification of exploitation rights, selection of suitable participants
- Step-by-step development of excellence and successful results:
Building trust, developing freedom, leaving routine, out of the box (special rethinking), visionary communication, deep imagination training, maximising individual and group creative potential - Results-based Creation Lab runs